Sirana<p>It seems some jobs' existence flies under the collective radar of society and audio transcription from interviews, public discussions and what not certainly seems to be one of these. Which means, nobody even notices that AI is taking away our whole industry, despite AI output often being far crappier as soon as someone has a dialect or uses uncommon terminology. </p><p>I appreciate people's rising awareness for accessibility in videos or podcasts or so, don't get me wrong, but who do you think are the people who transcribe audio manually? Healthy 20 year olds with no responsibilities who are capable of working full time in an office job or physical labour that pays much better than transcription?</p><p>Many people either do this additionally to something else, like translation, or are people who can only work part time for various reasons and can't just do anything else. Please don't throw us under the bus for a thing that's supposed to help others because it's so conventient to press a button in a program that burns the planet and shouts partial gibberish...</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Transcription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transcription</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AudioTranscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AudioTranscription</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Whisper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whisper</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>